Iowa women’s basketball to retire Caitlin Clark’s No. 22 jersey vs. JuJu Watkins and USC
Anyone who has visited Carver-Hawkeye Arena this season has seen the banner rolled up in the rafters, waiting to be unveiled at the perfect time. No one can see what’s on it. But everyone attached to Iowa women’s basketball knows what’s on it.
It comes down Feb. 2, the team announced Wednesday.
Caitlin Clark’s No. 22 will be retired on, by no coincidence, 2-2-25, which coincides with arguably the Hawkeyes’ biggest home game of the season. JuJu Watkins and USC will be in the building to watch Clark’s legacy be further cemented in Iowa women’s basketball lore.
It was announced in April at the team’s end-of-year celebration that Clark’s jersey would be retired in the near future, a fitting announcement as Iowa honored another team reaching the national title game. After proudly proclaiming she’d take Iowa to its first Final Four in three decades, Clark did that twice and then some with a bevy of unforgettable heroics and accolades.
“I’m forever proud to be a Hawkeye and Iowa holds a special place in my heart that is bigger than just basketball,” Clark said in a school release. “It means the world to me to receive this honor and to celebrate it with my family, friends and alumni. It will be a great feeling to look up in the rafters and see my jersey alongside those that I’ve admired for so long.”
